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Monday, April 1, 2013

Gifted: Cali - an art quilt

You saw little bits of this quilt if you follow me on Instagram.. and if you're on Craftsy you've seen the entire quilt already. I made this quilt for my sister-in-law, Michelle.

We didn't get off on the right foot when we met, but I feel like we're friends now and trust me when I say we have come a long way.

My husband and I flew her down from New Hampshire for a visit {she got here yesterday!} and now that she is finally here and has seen the quilt herself I can share it here. She follows on Facebook and I didn't want to ruin the surprise!

First, here is the original photo of Cali {Michelle's baby}...

And the finished quilt:

Can you see I stitched her name in the bottom right corner? This was a couple firsts for me, for one I had to embroider her pupil because I couldn't do a piece of fabric small enough, and second I bought a necklace chain for the actual dog chain and used a button for the um... whatever the tag is that goes on there.

I also added a quilt label to the back, which is not something I've really done before. On Melissa's table runner I did sign that, but as part of the table runner, not a separate label. So this is my very first quilt label... and really has me wanting to make labels for everything else I have finished and add the labels to those, starting with Getting Along.

And then a shot of the back of the quilt just because I think it looks cool.